i know the fediverse has been pretty split and a lot of big instances (mainly microblogging and mastodon-like softwares, but some lemmy instances are defederating meta too) but what do you think?
It’s Eembrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE) all over again. It has happen countless times, and will keep happening. I can’t believe people still fall for it.
Meta wants to capture the twitter refugees, and they will do the same thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
No need. If I wanted corpo social media, I’d be on reddit/twitter instead of lemmy/mastodon
Fuck Meta, they are cancer.
Seriously. They’re literaly cancer to the internet.
Fuck facebook. That all I have to say.
I think Carrot said it best.Mastodon already exists, they didn’t need to bother
I think I’ll never knowingly use a Meta product.
Why would I leave one shit stain’s platform for another’s?
I’ll never use a Facebook product if I can help it.
Installed it, saw my feed was full of people I didn’t follow, with no option to only view posts from followers, immediately uninstalled.
Once I followed people and accounts I wanted to see, their feeds automatically took over. What you saw was Meta filling the feed with something so average users don’t see an empty void and give up.
Not needed. We have mastodon. It has it’s quirks but in the long run is much better than twitter
I think they’ll do quite well, it’s a perfect landing spot for Twitter refugees not willing/techie enough to take the leap to Mastodon. Y’know, the normals. Particularly if it’s well-integrated with Instagram.
Is that a good thing? Ie do I want to see Twitter fail more than I want Meta to not be successful…? That’s a fucking tricky one!
I’ve taken a look around and it’s pretty early so not a lot of uptake. It will live or die by how many people actively use it. The built in follower base with instagram is pretty enticing. I was surprised to see a reference to the fediverse right up front. Might just be pandering, but we will see!
Use it to link back to Lemmy posts.
Yeah, I was wondering if you could set it to just broadcast, letting people know the Fediverse is your new home now. Throw them a lifeline.
this is my plan as soon as meta federates tbh
im willing to stick it out with their shitty app until they federate if it means i could bring over a few extra friends to the free persons side (:
I appreciate your missionary zeal. I can’t yet get up the energy to look at it - there’s so much more interesting stuff over on this side of the fence.
I doubt that will be the case.
As much as I like the fediverse, meta has some serious budget to through at UX. They will get people to use their app to interact with the fediverse, and then once they are the biggest instance, they will just defederate.
I think that if Apple let me install it in a walled off sandbox, away from everything else on my phone, I might give it a try, but as it is, it’s not going on my phone.
Tried it and after read some summary about it on Twitter, I don’t like it personally. They don’t have “only people you follow” timeline. They use timeline like r/all or Twitter’s recommendation tab.
The lack of ‘only people you follow’ tab is a huge over sight, that’s the thing I use the most because I’m rarely interested in any app’s recommendations.
So my two theories are:
- This was a rushed launch to capitalize on the latest Twitter shit show and the home timeline wasn’t done yet.
- They didn’t want people to log into Threads and see nothing if none of their other follows have activated yet, so instead they force you to see everything so you don’t run out of content and disengage.
Either way I’d expect to see it soon.
Your second point is the same guess as mine. Although you might be right about rushing the app out the door. They knew Bluesky is on the horizon and Mastodon was picking up users.
Once I followed people and accounts I wanted to see, their feeds automatically took over. What you saw was Meta filling the feed with something so average users don’t see an empty void and give up.
A friend who signed up at the same time was seeing my activity too. If I responded to someone, he could see it and join in the conversation, and vice versa. I actually didn’t how Threads took this route. I personally found it more appealing than Twitter and Mastodon when I first signed up and had nothing but an empty feed and had to go find everyone.
